3D Security Initiative

The 3D Security Initiative helps to facilitate civil society-military dialogue to foster greater understanding and recognition of
humanitarian space while looking at joint interests in broadly defined human security and civilian protection.

1. The Civil Society-Military Roadmap on Human Security provides an orientation to the perceptions, tensions, and opportunities between civil society organizations and military actors in conflict-affected regions. It documents a series of frank dialogues between military and international and local civil society organization over a two year period in 2010-2011. The next few reports on this list document individual civil-military dialogues that were the building blocks for the Roadmap.

2. Civil Society-Military Relations in Afghanistan
Report from a June 2010 roundtable hosted at US Institute of Peace between NGOs in Afghanistan and US military to map range of issues for future discussions.

3. Civil Society and the US Government in Conflict-Affected Regions: Building Better Relations for Peacebuilding
Report from a March 2010 roundtable hosted by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars between global peacebuilding civil society organizations and US government and military personnel.

4. Notre Dame Roundtable on Civil Society - Military Relations Report January 2010
A 20-page report of a three day discussion between global practitioners and NGOs in peacebuilding and development to discuss their relationship with military personnel in their countries, hosted by the Kroc Center for International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame.

5. Counterterrorism Laws &Peacebuilding 3D OpEd on Supreme Court Decision June 2010

6. Quantum Blur: Bringing Clarity to Civil-Military Relationships in a 3D World
An article by 3D staff published in InterAction's Monday Developments

7. Building Security from the Ground Up: Civil Society and the Security-Development Nexus
An article by 3D staff published in the Journal of International Peace Operations

8. Local Voices in Conflict Assessment 3D Policy Brief Fall 2008